Features

The figurative artists of the 1920s and ’30s should not be considered secondary to their abstract contemporaries – as numerous recent exhibitions have shown

After years of expansion, funding is a major issue for the city’s museums. How will they fare if the Trump administration provokes fresh culture wars?

The finest new additions to public art collections, from a large group of Cuban art in Miami, to G. F. Watts’ celebrated portrait of Violet Lindsay

In 1970 Rauschenberg left New York City for an island off the Florida coast. His retreat from the city transformed his art, and his legacy

The Queen’s House in Greenwich is steeped in so much history that curators have struggled to decide what to highlight. But now the problem seems to have been solved

For all its fame, Giles Gilbert Scott’s ‘temple of power’ in Battersea has had a chequered and difficult history. Is its future finally secure?

The curator, academic critic, and novelist was an inspirational figure, but also a dear friend to many in the art world

More than 2,000 objects of porcelain, lacquer, jade, enamel and ivory have been catalogued, researched, conserved, and photographed

One of Saddam Hussein’s crumbling former palaces has been transformed into a state of the art display space for Iraqi antiquities

London’s School of Oriental and African Studies has taught scholars, spies and Hollywood stars

September sees multiple new additions to museum collections, including the Getty’s record-breaking purchase of a Roman cabinet once owned by a Pope and a King